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The Dumb House by John Burnside
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest... -
Apostasy by John Burnside 9780993331190
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66Apostasy is a remarkable new collection of fourteen poems by John Burnside, one of the UK's foremost poets. A child struggles to reconcile a received Catholic world-view with a more instinctive... -
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A young girl, Liv, lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. Her only friend is an old man who beguiles her with tales of trolls, mermaids, and the huldra, a wild spirit who... -
Ashland & Vine by John Burnside
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for... -
Learning to Sleep by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £10.14Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness.Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep,... -
The Hoop by John Burnside 9780856357428
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Selected Poems by John Burnside
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.12Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His... -
Glister by John Burnside 9780099507840
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these... -
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside 9780099479543
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the... -
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking... -
Something Like Happy by John Burnside
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men -... -
Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside 9781529909258
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48A remarkable collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction**WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023**'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR'A master of... -
Gift Songs by John Burnside 9780224079976
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own', Shaker artists expressed an... -
Still Life with Feeding Snake by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand,... -
Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by John Burnside
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. But the suburbs... -
A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A... -
A Lie about My Father by John Burnside 9781555974671
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555974671Author John BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
Black Cat Bone: Poems by John Burnside 9781555977146
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977146Author John BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
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Something Like Happy by John Burnside 9780224097031 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £5.02In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men -... -
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction John Burnside 9781908213891
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John... -
Fair Helen by Andrew Greig
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.39Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014. 'One of the best historical novels of recent years, Greig dusts off the past and presents it with tremendous skill' - Literary... -
Testament by Robert Crawford 9780224098076
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic... -
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Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington 9780749397470 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.58A riotous urban picaresque, richly laced with black humour, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marks a milestone in Scottish literature. 'This tale of a week in the life of Tam Clay, Gorbals... -
The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Longlisted for the Ondaatje PrizeShortlisted for the Highland Book PrizeShetland: a place of sheep and soil, of harsh weather, close ties and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all... -
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each... -
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his... -
Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
Swansong by Kerry Andrew
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Swansong is the real thing, right from the start: spiky, strange and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth and folklore tugging at its telling...this is a brilliant novel by a writer... -
Old World by Robert Crawford 9781787334564
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Traversing the globe, Old World is a generous, playful collection about the issues facing our planet today, from a major Scots poet and biographer of T.S. Eliot'For intellectual range, emotional... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £7.11UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
Sleeping Under the Juniper Tree by Pauline Stainer
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking...her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life... -
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the author of Mayflies 'There is no page on which there is not something surprising or quotable or pleasurable of thought-provoking.' Hilary Mantel'One of the few truly essential works of... -
A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic by Peter Wadhams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Astonishing ... beautiful, compelling and terrifying' Observer'Wadhams' writing sparkles ... a lyrical sense of wonder at the natural world ... essential reading ... may be the best ... -
The Ultras by Eoin McNamee
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Taking his cue from the true-life story of Special Forces Operative Captain Robert Nairac, Eoin McNamee has in The Ultras weaved a compelling fictional narrative through the backwaters of history... -
Selected Poems Bernard O'Donoghue by Bernard O'Donoghue
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, Bernard O'Donoghue's poems have long captivated readers with their lyricism, their grace and with what John Burnside has called their 'scrupulous honesty'... -
Poetry Book Society Autumn 2025 Bulletin Alice Kate Mullen 9781913129811
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The Poetry Book Society Bulletin is your beautifully designed quarterly guide to the most essential new poetry from the UK and Ireland. Curated by expert poet-selectors, each issue features exclusive... -
The Physic Garden Catherine Czerkawska 9781908643513
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.22Moving, poetic and quietly provocative' - The Independent. City life in the early nineteenth century was never short of drama: poverty and pollution preyed on all but the lucky few, and 'resurrection... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers... -
Bloodlines by Andy Brown 9781905208401
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02In Bloodlines Andy Brown turns his attention to the subjects of medicine and the human body, treating them with the lyricism, imaginative range and formal agility for which his poetry has become...